Bug 1256426 (CVE-2015-5237) - CVE-2015-5237 protobuf: integer overflow in serialization
Summary: CVE-2015-5237 protobuf: integer overflow in serialization
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: CVE-2015-5237
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1253278 1256432
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Reported: 2015-08-24 14:32 UTC by Florian Weimer
Modified: 2023-05-12 10:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-08-27 08:53:18 UTC
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Description Florian Weimer 2015-08-24 14:32:30 UTC 
It was discovered that the protobuf library and code generated by the
protobuf compiler store size information in an int variable, which may
truncate size values on 64-bit architectures, leading to a heap-based
buffer overflow.

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This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.
Comment 2 Florian Weimer 2015-08-27 08:53:18 UTC 
Upstream bug: https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/760
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